#there are trans men of color

[xanny-zuko]

yknow, the fact that princess diana’s death got international media attention and practically everyone still speculates about the mysterious circumstances of her death but no one talks about how marsha p johnson was found dead in a river and her death was ruled a suicide despite her friends and family stating she’d never been suicidal doesnt site right with me. 

and yes, i am aware of the documentary. that was made by another trans woman (her name is victoria cruz).  because cis people don’t care. so we have to care about each other. 

edit: this post is getting a lot of traction and i feel the need to ad this bc i wholeheartedly agree tbh

#marsha p johnson #trans rights #trans women of color #transfem #transmasc #trans man #trans woman #trans women are women #trans men are men #trans pride #ftm #mtf #trans #trans rights are human rights #victoria cruz #lgbt history #trans history

[the-transgenda-agenda]

I finally managed to snap a photo of this billboard. For some reason I never had my phone out whenever I passed previously.

#my posts #albany new york #transgender usa #in our own voices #project pheonix #redefining visibility #trans men are men #transmasc representation #transmasc positivity #trans men #trans man #black trans men #trans men of color #ioov #transmasc pride #pride month #lgbt pride #transgender #trans poc #transmasc poc #i don’t know what to tag but i hope that this finds the right people #please never lose the courage to show everyone who you are #i know this world is hard but don’t let it drag you down #show everyone you’re here and show everyone the wonder and beauty #that is inherent to every transgender man woman and fellow nonbinary persona #persons* #we are strong. we are proud. we are undivided #we are the transgender community and we are not going anywhere anytime soon #please forgive the image description; i am still getting used to my aderall prescription

[queeraliensposts]

I've seen people calling Aiden Thomas a transmed author (mostly cause some transmeds like to claim his books), but if you followed Aiden Thomas on social media you'll see this not the case, also I think the reason why a lot of white transmeds resonate with his novels like Cemetery Boys and The Sunbearer Trials, has nothing to do with Aiden Thomas's writing and more to do with the fact that Aiden Thomas writes stories about LATINO trans men, and for a lot of white transmascs the message went way over their head.

In my own personal experience as a latino trans guy I relate much more to Aiden Thomas's work then to most other transmasc authors, because Aiden knows that it's a lot easier for us to internalize those toxic ideas of gender. Toxic masculinity is prevalent in latine culture it has it's own damm name "machismo". Therefore it's a lot harder for us to come to the realization that there's nothing wrong with our bodies and the problem stems from the way society views them. To add to that just as toxic masculinity is so over enforced in latine culture so is toxic feminity, so many of us feel the need to present very femininely before we finally decide to start presenting as ourselves. So once we actually come out and start presenting as male we try to compensate for that. On top of that growing up latine and afab means you and your body gets sexualized a lot more often. Mostly by the white supremacist stereotype of the curvy spicy Latina.

With all of that I can easily explain why when I read The Witch King, a novel about a white trans guy, when Wyatt said that he doesn't have a problem with his body and it was the way that people saw him as female, I personally couldn't relate.

But now going on the the actual content of Aiden Thomas's work (I will only be touching on Cemetery Boys because I haven't finished the Sunbearer Trials 😅).

Yadriel starts the novel with a lot of internalized transphobia which he's not even aware of. This is because at this point, he is the only queer person he knows, and he's surrounded by people who see him as different for who he is. It's not until he meets Julian, another queer person who has interacted with many other queer people. It's not until Yadriel starts talking to Julian and his friends that he starts realizing that everything he was taught about what it means to be a man is bullshit by the end of the book while I'm sure Yadriel hasn't 100% gotten over his internalized transphobia, he set on a path to unlearn it.

Aiden Thomas isn't a transmed author he just writes about the trans experience from a perspective that is often overlooked.

Closing off I would like to set the record cause as a latino trans author that's currently working on a novel about a latino trans boy mc. For any transmeds who wanna claim my work, it's not for you.

#trans #lgbtqia #ftm #transmasc #leftist #trans men #latino #latine #latinx #Latino trans man #mexican #Mexican and trans #trans men of color #cemetery boys #the sunbearer trials #aiden thomas #The witch king #bookblr #media literacy

[pocketsizedquasar]

TPOC-Prioritized writings on anti-transmasculinity / transandrophobia

transandrophobia / anti-transmasculinity are both theories that have been spearheaded primarily by trans poc, particularly Black transmascs and transfemmes.

unfortunately, as with Everything created by queer and trans poc, particularly Black queer ppl, white trans ppl (regardless of gender, and regardless of whether they "believe" in this form of oppression or not) have coopted these theories and dominated these conversations, such that both "sides" of the "discourse" are divorced entirely from the racial connotations in which these theories were created, and the ways in which they were created specifically as an intervention against white feminism, and to highlight the ways multiple marginalizations affect the marginalization of masculinity. these are theories that explicitly interact with and can only be understood in conjunction with transmisogyny, as well as other oppressions like racism and misogynoir.

*"anti-transmasculinity" as a term and theory was coined by Black trans folks (some of whom's writings are linked below), and is specifically a theory within the context of Black transfeminism antiBlackness, and transmisogynoir, and cannot be divorced from that context. i try be very intentional about my use of the terms 'anti-transmasculinity' and 'transandrophobia' in different places here, because i do not want to dilute the former’s very particular context.

anyway, here's a list of miscellaneous writings on the subjects, with a priority for collecting writing from trans poc (not all of the authors are tpoc, but this list was intended to prioritize tpoc voices). the intention of this is not to be a be-all end-all on the subject, nor exalt any one of these individuals or pieces as exclusively ~correct~ or whatever, but to combat the whitewashed nature of these discussions online, and raise awareness to the myriad of people speaking on this subject. (nor do i claim to speak for any of them, or claim that any of them speak for me. i tried to make sure i didn't platform blatant racists, zionists, transmisogynists, or other bigots, but i'm not pretending to be 100% accurate about that.)

they aren't in any particular order (except the first one, which i think is an extremely foundational text for anti-transmasculinity theory as delineated by its creators, within the context of antiblackness and transmisogyny, and necessary reading to understand anti-transmasculinity as a theory). I tried to group all the links from the same authors together.

This is a non-exhaustive list! I will likely come back and add more writings as I find them. please feel free to recommend to me any works to include (including your own! especially if you yourself are a Black trans person or a trans POC).

Now with an Archived Read-more Link!

Racial-Class Paternalism and the Trojan Horse of Anti-transmasculinity by Nsámbu Za Suékama. if you read nothing else from this list, read this.

“But even as TME struggles escape the mainstream imagination, they persist, and are often both fueling and being fueled by the war on trans women and transfeminine people. Nothing makes this clearer than in how a Western binary system triangulates that war with Anti-transmasculinity. This is why I say that Anti-transmasculinity is a Trojan horse for Transmisogyny. Like the wooden horse in the Greek myth, it might not seem like what it is, for its actual contents and character are invisible, but at the heart of it, there is a violent campaign going on that is key to how the West aims to lay seige to its civilizational "enemies." And, like the walls of the city of Troy, materialist transfeminism has fortified the opposition to Western domination, in such a way that to overcome the stronghold requires a new strategy for the Man, one that follows up the open and vicious attacks on TMA people with a different, more hidden form of warfare.”

“today’s gender paternalism frames any manhood and masculine embodiment outside of (western) cisheteronormativity as not just biologically illegitimate but also the result of a barbaric threat to civilization. And who typically figures as the face of that barbarism but the Black trans woman? Materialist transfeminism has to theorize Anti-transmasculinity.”

"Non-Men", maGes, and Black Masculinities by genderfugitive / disrupthehuman

One such argument, which is really a collection of arguments but can be consolidated into one, is that trans men are attempting to take a place alongside cis men in the hierarchy of patriarchy. In other words, while they may not have been so before naming themselves as trans men, they are aspiring to be oppressors. This employs a number of rhetorical devices that I have identified before including the idea that trans men are “betraying” cis womanhood and therefore should be seen as threats unless they act as footsoldiers for transmisogyny. The problem with this is that it treats trans manhoods as embodiments that exist as something which merely aspires to be cis manhood.

"For Those Seeking Fight or Flight: Black Trans*feminist Nihilism" / primer on transmisogynoir by genderfugitive / disrupthehuman (not about anti-transmaculinity specifically (though it does come up), but a very good + important read on Black transfeminism & transmisogynoir, so I'm including it)

anti-transmasculinity needs its own theorizing outside of general "transphobia" by genderfugitive / disrupthehuman

anti-transmasculinity & antiblackness inherently linked (& another) both by genderfugitive / disrupthehuman

There is a hidden epidemic of violence against transmasculine people by Orion Rodriguez

a thread master post linking to multiple threads about anti transmasculinity by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

a thread on anti-transmasculinity as an epistemic injustice (translated) originally by magicspeedwagon in French; English translation by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

Not transmasc invisibility, but erasure by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

Girlboy Boygirl Blues - antitransmasculinity as a denial of individual history & more by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

"irl we just kiss" - ‘transmasc vs transfem’ discourse & reactionary ‘boys vs girls’ politics in trans spaces by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

transmascs & being treated as predatory by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

transmasc mental health statistics by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

violent anti-transmasculine hate crimes by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

thread on examples of systemic anti-transmasculinity by magicspeedwagon

a thread on anti-transmasculinity and its erasure by storyjunkie

anti transmasculinity & transmisogyny and the degendering of Black people by afrodykee

anti transmasculinity & transmisogyny cannot be theorized in opposition to each other by afrodykee

white transfeminism's anti-transmasculinity by afrodykee

Black trans people & erasure of TPOC voices from the trans community by thatspookyagent

transmasculine nonwhite expereince by thatspookyagent

trans men being silenced by thatspookyagent

queer POC being pushed out of conversations by thatspookyagent

cis women's harm to trans men by novascotioducktoller w/ addition about TMOC by thatspookyagent

medical violence in anti transmasculinity by Caleb / sethpuertoluna

example of medical anti transmasculinity by Dominick / transguyenergy

response to inclusion of a trans man in an ad (thread) by Dominick / transguyenergy

anti-transmasculinity around periods by Dominick / transguyenergy

anti-transmasculinity towards pregnant trans men by Dominick / transguyenergy

transitioning as a transmasc of color by gendercriminals

white (cis) women & racist transandrophobia by dead-lavender-society

transandrophobia as an indigenous trans man by petrichorvoices

examples of transandrophobia by transvermin

the “lost lesbian” narrative & antitransmasculinity by vaguefiend

cis women & transandrophobia by vaguefiend

intersectionality & transandrophobia by visible-schizo-spectrum

more transandrophobia from cis women by cock-holliday

tl;dr : there’s LOTS of theory and discussions out there abt anti-transmasculinity, transandrophobia, how these things relate to other forms of transphobia, how it interacts with other marginalizations, most especially race, and the ways in which it affects transmascs. this information is everywhere. it’s out there. y’all (white ppl) are just refusing to engage with it.

#trans #lgbtq #queer #transphobia #transandrophobia #anti transmasculinity #transmisogyny #racism #long post #quasartalks #been compliling this for ages but i think it's finally at a point where i feel comfortable posting it #like i said though it is very much subject to change! i would love to add more things to this #it is extremely shitty that discussions on antitransmasculinity and transandrophobia have been dominated on here by racist yt ppl and their #token trans poc that they so clearly are just using as a shield against when ppl call them out on aforementioned racism. #anyway. dont bother clowning on this post i will just block <3 #so much of this 'discourse' boils down to: transmascs and trans men (esp transmascs of color) saying: 'hey i experience this thing' #and other ppl (esp white ppl!) going 'no you don't.' it's so blatant lmao #it's just the complete denial of our Authority to talk about our own experiences. we are not trusted to be authorities on our own lives. #which. where have i heard that before. smells like racism. smells like misogyny. #also bc ppl can't read: none of this means transmascs have it worse than transfemmes; that transfemmes oppress transmascs; or that these #-experiences ONLY happen to transmascs. those are all extremely bad faith readings of these discussions. #AND ALSO to the (especially white) transmascs who also can't read and take these discussions as excuses to be racist & transmisogynist: #we cannot combat transandrophobia & anti transmasculinity without combating transmisogyny. they are linked. #anyway. good night

[straight-like-a-wet-noodle]

rolling around in the grass

#men need tenderness #cowboycore #cowboys #cowboy art #sketchbook #sketchbook art #color pencil illustration #yearning #mlm #trans mlm #mlm illustration #mlm positivity #mlm YEARNING #bimlm #bi mlm art #ftm mlm #tender art #Tenderness

[miraculouslumination]

The audacity to be like "there's a problem with racism in transandrophobia discussions" while also unironically using the term "transandrophobia truther(s)"

#Jean mumbles #Of course there will almost always be racism in discussions of oppression #But like...bro are you really going to say this and then side with the exact same people #Who have constantly erased and silenced the voices of trans men of color and other marginalized trans men #Calling them shit like white-aligned or overall gatekeeping their blackness #Are you seriously not seeing how that call is coming from inside the house #And again - truther is something that has very heavy ties to antisemitism #So again. Are you really the hero because of this? #Are you actually helping people here? #Now I'm white so obviously take what I say here with as many grains of salt as you feel is best #But all I'm saying is that racism is fucking everywhere and there is not a single group in this discussion who is guilt free #And right now you're participating in the violent act of erasing and silencing the voices of non-white and non-gentile trans men and mascs #I wish the best to anyone who has fallen for this pandering bullshit #And a huge apology to all the trans m&ms this bullshit hurts #Transandrophobia #(Gatekeeping blackness but also just non-white raced and ethnicities in general)

[b0bthebuilder35]

#trans women #trans women of color #trans men #trans men of color #transgender #jess hilarious #gatekeeper #gatekeepers #biology #masculine #feminine #cis #trans #colonialism #protect trans people #protect trans women #protect trans men #protect trans lives #trans lives matter #human #trans lives are human lives #reality #history lesson #history #trans is beautiful #be mad #Oop #there you have it #there you go #let it go

[alicia-dave]

One year of working on my body, hii tumblr I’m new on this site please be nice lol❤️❤️

#trans women i love you #trans women in sports #trans women are valid #trans women are real women #trans women are not women #trans women are hot #trans women are beautiful #trans women of color #trans women positivity #transformation #trans rights #transfem #transgender #transmasc #mtf trans #trans #trans artist #trans beauty #trans boy #trans boys #trans cult #trans exclusionary radical feminist #trans genocide #trans lady #trans male #trans man #trans men #trans nsft #trans pride #trans woman

[sharkgirldick]

What another beautiful day to love and respect fat women, especially fat women of color and fat trans women.

Have a wonderful day ladies 💚

#text post #shark thoughts #I LOVE AND RESPECT FAT MEN (esp fat men of color and fat trans men) AND FAT NBS (you know what goes here) BUT THIS POST IS ABOUT WOMEN #DO NOT DERAIL

[tsavivas-blog]

Daddy come check out this hot trans girl

#trans women are amazing #trans women of color #mtf trans #transformation #transgender #trans rights #intersex #trans nsft #transgirl #transformers #trans women are valid #trans women positivity #trans women are beautiful #trans women i love you #trans community #gay men #cross dressing

[mourningmaybells]

whenever I see posts that are like "dont just headanon characters as transmen because they're younger thin white men" and "you need to draw transmen that aren't just buff roman statues with top surgery scars", I think "they're completely right" but then I realize how differently my online experience is in viewing fan art.

a bunch of trans art and trans headcanons Ive seen this year are [checks notes]

Frankenstein's Creature (book and movie iterations), Kim Kitsuragi, Harry du Bois, a werewolf, another werewolf, Bigby Wolf, older Simon Petrikov, Damien Karras, Columbo, and finally, The entire cast of Seinfeld

also, last year, a lot of trans men I followed got into and headcanoned the slasher from James Wan's Malignant.

#well i guess the slasher is a thin white men #but what i mean to say is like... average thin white men. guy who you'd see at a store in america. blandly conventionally attractive too #anyways too late to re-edit this now it's been reblogged by other people #i am seeing a pattern though where trans men of color aren't drawn a lot in fiction either way

[teeth--king]

Probably the longest I've worked and a piece in a while, but I saw a few people do that color wheel character thingy, and I wanted to do one for some of my own characters as well! In order of pink to purple: Byron, Jasper, Bryte, Donovan(and Cyran), Rahal, Stag, Yzi, and Elliot.

#art #artists on tumblr #oc #color wheel challenge #oh that's what it's called!! #literally half are trans men. look I mainly make character for myself haha #I don't like this piece but it's done now. I'm free from it's grasp #c: byron #c: jasper #c: bryte #c: donovan #c: cyran #c: rahal #c: stag #c: yzi #c: elliot #tw blood #tw body horror

[queeraliensposts]

"people are adverse to the idea that transandrophobia exists because they have too much experience with cis MRAs trying to deny the existence of misogyny" is a very similar statement to "People are skeptical of autistic people criticizing In The Fire because they have too much experience with Johnny Depp trolls" which is to say that both statements are just excuses to silence marginalized communities by labeling them woman-hating trolls.

#ftm #trans #lgbtqia #transmasc #transandrophobia #ableism #autism #in the fire #actually autistic #transgender #trans man #trans men of color #leftist #trans men #neurodivergent #tw: abuse

[arthrobug]

This happened a little over a week ago and it was funniest and is one of the most gender euphoric inducing things that has ever happened to me

#trans #transgender #arthrobug #bugbrain #trans men #queer #lgbtq #art #comic #illustration #spidersona #spider character #oc #sona art #monster #btw i turn 18 tomorrow and i was literally told to call on my birthday wish me luck #ill update with how it went hopefully on the 11th lmao #oh my god i just fucking realized i never colored the phone AHAHHH

[beanghostprincess]

OH MY GOD IMAGINE TRANSFEMME YONJI TRYING TO PICK A FIGHT WITH SANJI DURING WCI AND SANJI OBVIOUSLY REFUSING TO FIGHT HER BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HURT WOMEN AND YONJI DAMN NEAR BREAKING DOWN CRYING BECAUSE SANJI AND REIJU ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY SEE HER AS A WOMAN

Sorry I was thinking about the ask I sent last night and this happened

DON'T DO THIS TO ME SO EARLY IN THE MORNING C'MON 😭😭😭

Sanji has the finest gaydar for trans people. I am so sure about that. Especially when it comes to trans girls because he would definitely say something like "You don't need to tell me to know you have the soul of a woman" or some cheesy, gentleman thing like that. If he can have a mellorine detector I am 100% sure he knows when he's in front of a woman even if the girl hasn't even come out yet.

He just knows something's like, different about Yonji and she's having a whole gender crisis while WCI happens and Sanji can't fight her. Like- It doesn't feel right to do so. And he knows she's hiding something and she's suffering and he has seen this before but he doesn't even go there. It's not his problem and he will not help the one who hurt him. So not fighting her is alright, but he's not going to help her either.

Eventually, he ends up finding out, either thanks to Reiju or because Yonji has said some very suspicious things that make it obvious she's a girl. And it just kills me to think about Yonji having a whole breakdown mid-fight with Sanji because Sanji refuses to fight her and Yonji doesn't want him to just-- Not fight back? That's no fun! She wants him to get angry at her and do something! But Sanji won't move and only tries to dodge her attacks.

Sanji might still never forgive her for what she did to him, but he could never let a woman suffer in this hell. So... You know. Thoughts about helping Yonji get to Momoiro Island or something so that way she can be herself and free!!

#i love that you color their names it's really cute #also fem yonji my beloved so true girl #any scenario with sanji refusing to fight a trans girl who hasn't accepted herself yet is the best concept ever i owe you my life #also same thing with trans men bc it'd be really gender affirming tbh if sanji fought a trans man who hasn't come out yet #and everyone's like ??????? 'i thought you didn't fight girls' #and sanji is like '??????? nono this is a man i just know in my soul' #imagine in op fixed everything that's wrong with sanji and instead the timeskip made him the finest trans supporter #'trans supporter' as if sanji wasn't literally genderfluid to me but yeah #one piece #black leg sanji #vinsmoke yonji #transfem yonji

[coolauntlilith]

So I finally watched Sense8. I regret not watching it sooner for a couple reasons. But I'm so glad I finally watched it.

#i dont know why it got canceled #but it ended well for being canceled #AND ITS SO QUEER. ITS SOOOOO QUEER #two confirmed bi women. amanita had bi colored hair but being exclusively wlw the whole show she could be lesbian. a trans lesbian!!!! #all the men are queer. they are. i love how comfortable they are with each other. and RAJAN IS A GODDAMN KING. ID DIE FOR THAT MAN #sun and mun 🥺🥺🥺 omfgggg i love them. i kinda headcanon sun as demi- or gray-aroace and mun 😭 HES A FUCKING KING TOO #and diego 🥺 and felix 🥺 and Rileys dad 🥺 and Caphaes' mom 🥺 and amanita's parents 🥺 nomi's sister 🥺 and Kala's parents 🥺 #SO MANY CHARACTERS WERE AMAZING!!!!! #also lowkey still in awe that there was a polycule through the whole show and then in the end theres a second one??? whaaaaat!!! amaaazing #ALSO ⚠️ BEFORE ANY YELLS AT ME FOR MAYBE MISSING A DETAIL ⚠️ Im human. maybe i got up for a drink and didnt pause. #bc thats a crime i commit often lol. so if im misinterpreting something dont chop off my head ok? i saw polycules you didnt have to #i saw an aroace reading. i dont totally know if i sit by that any more bc i think sun x mun is built well. like dont attack me over musings #ok. done for now #sense8 #aunt posting